The biggest gap closing came when we settled here.

Was this video taken in 1940s?

Assimilation, not separatism, is the only way.  That is as true for Aborigines as for anyone else.


The population of Tennant Creek as of the 2021 census is 3,080 people, of which 1,707 (55.4%) are Aboriginal.
Tennant Creek is known for having one of the highest crime rates in Australia, especially among its local Aboriginal population. Much of the crime is violent and stems from alcohol.[34][35]

Tennant Creek is consistently ranked among the most dangerous towns in Australia, and as of 2023 it is the most dangerous town in the Northern Territory.[36]

In January 2017, the estimated homicide rate in Tennant Creek was 59.6 per 100,000 people, almost double as high as the homicide rate per 100,000 people in the United States.[37]



Not enough kiddies are removed from such hellholes.

Frank wrote on Feb 11^th, 2025 at 9:02am:



Just change the town name to Kathrine - it has nearly as bad crime, violence & murder statistics.



Quote:


Sexual assault has decreased - so it seems they'd rather kill a woman or child than rape them.

Speaking of $Millions wasted on culture wars:

NT CLP government 'dismantles' treaty plans, ending seven-year process

Exclusive by Matt Garrick
Tue 11 Feb

In short:
The Northern Territory's Country Liberal Party (CLP) government has confirmed it has discontinued the treaty process in the territory, which was triggered by Territory Labor in 2018.

The decision has been met with disappointment by long-term fighters for a treaty.

What's next?
The CLP says it will instead focus on restoring local control to remote community councils.

After seven years, millions of dollars and thousands of kilometres of travel, the Northern Territory government has officially ended the process of forging a treaty in the NT.

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said the new Country Liberal Party (CLP) government was no longer pursuing plans for a treaty with Aboriginal people, which Territory Labor began in 2018.

"Our focus is on local government reform — we've always been clear about that."

In a further statement, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Steve Edgington confirmed that the former treaty commissioner Tony McAvoy's treaty recommendations would be shelved.

"There is no funding allocated and there are no plans for the recommendations from the former treaty commissioner's report to be implemented," Mr Edgington said.

While exactly how much funding was spent on the treaty process over the past seven years remains unclear, the costs of setting up a treaty commission and treaty office cost millions.

"Under the former Labor Government, territory

taxpayers forked out $5.3 million

for the Treaty Commission/Treaty Office between 2018-19 and 2023-24," Mr Edgington said.

Consultations alone cost around $4 million

, and included thousands of kilometres of travel by staff of the former Treaty Commission to various Aboriginal communities across the NT.

Path to treaty was fraught, controversial

In 2018, then-chief minister Michael Gunner announced that his government was willing to negotiate a treaty or treaties between the territory government and Aboriginal people.

He signed an agreement to do so with the NT's four Aboriginal land councils, on the 30th anniversary of former prime minister Bob Hawke's failed promise for a federal treaty in 1988.

Following these early steps, the path towards a treaty in the territory was at times rocky.

Inaugural treaty commissioner, Mick Dodson, was appointed to the role in 2019, but later resigned following allegations of verbal abuse against a woman at a football match.

In 2023, the then-NT Labor government quietly closed down the Treaty Commission office.

That decision came just months after the commission handed down its final report recommending the path on how to implement a treaty in the territory.

Those recommendations were never implemented by the former Labor government, which tried to fire up the process towards a treaty again last year, before it lost the NT election.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-11/nt-clp-government-scraps-treaty-process/1...

LOL... why am I not in the least surprised to see
this site's resident racist and liar link to another
racist and liar like Andrew Bolt on SKY News?

Poor old Boris must cry himself to sleep every night
when he thinks just how badly he's being treated in
comparison with our Aboriginals who're living a life
of luxury on the back of taxpayers' money.

The crime rates and living conditions in these areas suit the aboriginal activists just fine. They don't want things to improve because their livelihood and relevance depends on the existence of a permanent aboriginal underclass they can claim to represent while pointing the finger at the white man and sucking off the taxpayers tit.

This is why they oppose every real effort to improve things, but their apologists utterly fail to see what's really going on.